Namibia

What the source says

Referenced, awaiting primary-source review

Adopted 21 March 1990. Red represents Namibia's most important resource, its people [...] their heroism and their determination to build a future of equal opportunity for all; white represents peace, unity, tranquility, and harmony; green symbolises vegetation and agricultural resources; blue represents the clear Namibian sky and the Atlantic Ocean [...] and rain; the gold sun [is] life and energy. The National Symbols Sub-Committee received 870 entries; three designs [...] were combined to form the flag.

(r1) Flag of Namibia (Wikipedia (English)), read on 2026-07-17. States the adoption year, which colors the flag has, what the colors mean and the symbolism and history on this page.

Referenced, not verified: a secondary work states this, and the document that constitutes the flag has not been read for this entry. What the marks mean.

Colors and meaning

Blue(r1) #003580
The clear Namibian sky and the Atlantic Ocean, the country's water resources and rain(r1)
White(r1) #FFFFFF
Peace, unity, tranquility and harmony(r1)
Green(r1) #009543
Vegetation and agricultural resources(r1)
Red(r1) #D21034
The people, their heroism and determination to build a future of equal opportunity(r1)
Gold(r1) #FFCE00
Life and energy; the golden-yellow is the wealth of the country(r1)

Symbolism and history(r1)

A diagonal red band edged in white splits a blue triangle bearing a golden sun from a green triangle; the design was assembled from three citizens' entries, out of 870 submissions, and adopted at independence in 1990.

Most similar flags

The 6 closest of the 194 other national flags, ranked by a similarity index computed from the flag images themselves. The number is that index, 0–100 — not a claim that the two flags are “X% identical”.

Computed at build time: each flag is rasterised to 64x48, and the score is 0.55 × colour overlap + 0.45 × structure. A different weighting would rank these differently. How the index works.

References — not verification

(r1) Referenced to Flag of Namibia (Wikipedia (English)) on 2026-07-17. States the adoption year, which colors the flag has, what the colors mean and the symbolism and history on this page. The passage it states them in is quoted at the top of this entry.

Further reading: Flag of Namibia on Wikipedia